Why Design Thinking?

Discussion Forum

It is almost the end of the school year and I know we can all see the finish line up ahead! I was wondering if anyone had anything to share about the toolkit. Wether you have had an opportunity to…Continue

I'm working with http://massidea.org/ project at the moment. We are also working on a guidebook for teachers about how to support innovative thinking in teaching and bring design thinking as part of the work in schools. My employer in this project is a univercity of applied sciences in Finland and they don't have design education but are now interested in applying it in other programs.

I could not agree more! It is both challenging and exciting to try to shift ones mindset. I have found this process to be frustrating and difficult at certain times but so rewarding and enlightening in the end. My hope is that educators will view this as an opportunity to grow and experiment with our ever evolving craft, not as an end all be all cure for problems in education.